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The 21st Panzer, along with 15th Panzer Division, did score a notable victory over XXX Corps (and in particular the 7th Armoured Division) on 22 November at Sidi Rezegh and broke through to the Egyptian border, posing a threat to the Eighth Army. Over-stretched supply lines and the urgent need to assist the Axis forces around Tobruk, which were ...
Staff Company, 2nd Panzer Brigade, (8x M577, 8x Luchs) 21st Panzer Battalion, (28x Leopard 2A2, 11x Marder, 12x M113) 22nd Panzergrenadier Battalion, (35x Marder, 6x Panzermörser, 12x M113) 23rd Panzer Battalion, (41x Leopard 2A2, 12x M113) 24th Panzer Battalion, (41x Leopard 2A2, 12x M113) 25th Panzer Artillery Battalion, (18x M109A3G)
21st Panzer Division: Rommel's Afrika Korps Spearhead. Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 9780711028531. — 21st Panzer Division; Großmann, Horst (1958). Geschichte der rheinisch-westfälischen 6. Infanterie-Division 1939–1945 [History of the Rhenish-Westphalian 6th Infantry Division, 1939–1945] (in German). Bad Nauheim: Podzun. — 6th Infantry ...
Johann "Hans" Theodor von Ravenstein (1 January 1889 – 26 March 1962) was a German general (generalleutnant) in the Wehrmacht during World War II.He commanded the 21st Panzer Division from May 1941 until being made a prisoner of war in late November 1941.
8th Panzer Regiment (2 bns) 1st Battalion, 115th Infantry Regiment; 2nd Machine Gun Battalion; 3rd Engineers Battalion; 33rd Recon Battalion; 33rd Anti-tank Battalion; 33rd Artillery Regiment; 21st Panzer Division (Generalmajor Johann von Ravenstein until 29 November (prisoner of war), then Generalmajor Karl Böttcher) 5th Panzer Regiment (2 bns)
Around 10:30 a.m. General Erich Marcks, commander of the German LXXXIV Corps to which the 21st Panzer Division was attached, ordered the entire 21st to leave a single company from the division's 22nd Panzer Regiment to deal with the paratroopers and move the rest of the division to attack the British forces advancing from the beachhead toward ...
1215th Regiment; 1216th Regiment; 1217th Regiment; 21st Panzer Division Generalleutnant Edgar Feuchtinger. 22nd Panzer Regiment; 125th Panzer Grenadier Regiment; 192nd Panzer Grenadier Regiment; 155th Panzer Artillery Regiment; 21st Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion; 200th Assault Gun Battalion; 200th Anti-tank Battalion; 200th Panzer Signals ...
Though Afrika veteran Fritz Bayerlein in command of the Panzer Lehr Division requested and was given Colonel Hans von Luck, when he arrived von Luck was transferred to 21st Panzer to serve as the panzergrenadier regiment commander for Feuchtinger. [5] Erwin Rommel discusses review of Feuchtinger's 21st Panzer Division.